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To: combjelly who wrote (28420)	2/14/2001 9:26:14 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Comb, If our favorite company ever tried to enforce that patent, you could contribute your work as prior art to the defense. That would make their patent pretty useless. Scumbria

To: combjelly who wrote (28420)	2/14/2001 10:21:22 AM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 275872

combjelly: But it appears as if it won't stop them from trying. And the Rambus investors eat it up. I haven't heard Rambus claim that EV6, AGTL+ or LDT violate their patents (whether valid or not). Sure, they do a bit of posturing every now and then, but I haven't seen one move by Rambus to go after non-memory applications. [of course, none of this makes sense, since a data transfer is a data transfer is a data transfer. and a data transfer between two chips doesn't become something else just because one of those chips happens to be a memory chip] -fyo